A comment on the definition of GMO:
Our contract with the European Union, and European Law:
Defines GMOs as either the insertion of DNA into a genome, or cell fusion. Notably, it does NOT define products of random mutagenesis as GMOs. I assume this was an oversight in the drafting of the document, but who knows. Random mutagenesis certainly wonks up a genome a lot more than any of the methods they do list.
According to this article:
There are thousands of plant cultivars which have been develolped using random mutagenesis, including wheat, barley, grapefruit, but none of these would be considered GMOs by modern standards and would not be restricted from trade with the European Union, under their own definition. A year or two ago, everyone went bat-crap crazy because GMO wheat might have been grown by mistake, and the European Union and Japan destroyed shipments of wheat and cancelled orders until it was "resolved." Sorry guys, you've all been eating GMO wheat for decades.
I think everyone would be a little better off if they stopped to find out the truth instead of just going nuts about everything.
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